Michigan resident Rebecca Cousineau filed the lawsuit on behalf of tens of thousands of consumers who use phones with the Microsoft software and had their location data tracked after they disabled the feature. The complaint seeks a court order barring the company from tracking users’ phone locations, $1,000 for each violation, and unspecified punitive damages.

Redmond is only the latest smartphone OS maker to incur the wrath of consumers who don't care for companies tracking their locations and storing the data on servers.

In August, a South Korean lawyer filed a $26 million class-action lawsuit in that country against Apple for tracking iPhone and iPad user locations. That suit has 27,000 plaintiffs.